1. First you must choose 3 inventors that you would like to study. Your choices are:
¨ Alexander Graham Bell
¨ Thomas Alva Edison
¨ Douglas Engelbart
¨ Benjamin Franklin
¨ Johannes Gutenberg
¨ Edwin Land
¨ Tim Berners-Lee
¨ Blaise Pascal
¨ Earl Tupper
¨ Louis Braille
¨ Chester Carlson
¨ Philo Farnsworth
¨ Ruth Handler
¨ Charles Schulz
¨ Steve Jobs
¨ William Keith Kellog
¨ John Britten (New Zealander)
¨ Bill Gallagher (New Zealander) ¨ Bill Hamilton (New Zealander)
¨ A J Hackett (New Zealander)
Evaluation: At the completion of your webquest, you will turn in or have completed the following.
My 3 inventors are1. Bill Gallagher.(NZ)2.Bill Hamilton(NZ)3.John Britten (NZ)
¨ John Britten (New Zealander) John Kenton Britten (1 August 1950 – 5 September 1995) was a New Zealand mechanical engineer who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle with innovative features which are still ahead of contemporary design.A dyslexic, he needed to have exam questions read to him at school and during his tertiary education, and his answers recorded by a writer, but that didn't stop him from developing into a remarkable engineer and architectural designer.
John worked on motorcycle design for some years, developing innovative methods using composite materials and performance engine designs. He created the Britten Motorcycle Company in 1992 to produce revolutionary machines to his own design made of light materials and using engines he built himself, which became famous around the world.
His Britten motorcycles won races and set numerous speed records on the international circuits, and astounded the motorcycle world in 1991 when they came a remarkable second and third against the factory machines in the Battle of the Twins at Daytona, United States Of America.
Bill Gallagher (New Zealander)
The Gallagher story started in the 1930's when Bill Gallagher senior, founder of the Gallagher Group, used his ingenuity to develop practical mechanical solutions for his underdeveloped farm.
When Joe the Horse used the Gallagher family car as a scratching post in the early 1930's, the horse could not have known what his annoying habit would lead to. It is doubtful that Bill Gallagher visualised his pioneering future when he set up the electric circuit that charged the car to break the horse's habit. Hard lesson for the horse, innovative start for Bill.
In 1937 Bill Gallagher made his first electric fence. He had read that in America they were using electrified wire to hold stock. He used mains power supply to power the fence until his circuit was deemed illegal and disconnected by authorities. Undaunted, he developed fences that were powered by batteries and Ford coils. They had their weaknesses, but it was a start.
Bill developed and experimented until, given their limitations, they performed as best they could. But by the early 1960's the battery-powered fences abilities had peaked. They only had full effect in small areas and their growth would have only been achieved through advances in technology that were not likely to occur for a while. Then, fortunately for the business of animal control, the law regarding main power supply usage was changed in 1961, and Power Fencing as the world knows it today, was legally born. ¨ Bill Hamilton (New Zealander) Sir Charles William Feilden Hamilton (26 July 1899 - 30 March 1978), commonly known as Bill Hamilton, was a New Zealander who developed the modern jetboat, and founder of what is now the world's leading water jet manufacturing company - CWF Hamilton Ltd
Hamilton never claimed to have invented the jet boat. He once said "I do not claim to have invented marine jet propulsion. The honour belongs to a gentleman named Archimedes, who lived some years ago". What he did was refine the design enough to produce the first useful modern jet boat.
In the 1950s Hamilton set out to try to build a boat that could navigate the shallow fast flowing rivers where he lived. The rivers were too shallow for propeller driven boats to navigate as the propeller would hit the river bottom.
He investigated the American Hanley Hydro-Jet, a model which drew in water and fired it out through a steerable nozzle underneath the boat. Even when further adapted it did not work well. An employee suggested to have the nozzle just above the waterline.
When he took one of his early demonstration jet boats to the US, the media scoffed when he said he planned to take it up the Colorado River (U.S.), but in 1960 a Hamilton jet became the first boat to travel up through the Grand Canyon. The critics were silenced further when the boat also went down river through the canyon.
He was born at Ashwick Station near Fairlie (South Island, New Zealand).
Hamilton survived an aeroplane accident returning to Rongotai Airport (Wellington) in poor conditions on 19 February 1937. The collision with the anemometer took the starboard wing off the Miles Falcon Six he was travelling in, and killed pilot Malcolm "Mac" McGregor.
¨ Alexander Graham Bell
¨ Thomas Alva Edison
¨ Douglas Engelbart
¨ Benjamin Franklin
¨ Johannes Gutenberg
¨ Edwin Land
¨ Tim Berners-Lee
¨ Blaise Pascal
¨ Earl Tupper
¨ Louis Braille
¨ Chester Carlson
¨ Philo Farnsworth
¨ Ruth Handler
¨ Charles Schulz
¨ Steve Jobs
¨ William Keith Kellog
¨ John Britten (New Zealander)
¨ Bill Gallagher (New Zealander)
¨ Bill Hamilton (New Zealander)
¨ A J Hackett (New Zealander)
Evaluation:
At the completion of your webquest, you will turn in or have completed the following.
My 3 inventors are1. Bill Gallagher.(NZ)2.Bill Hamilton(NZ)3.John Britten (NZ)
¨ John Britten (New Zealander)
John Kenton Britten (1 August 1950 – 5 September 1995) was a New Zealand mechanical engineer who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle with innovative features which are still ahead of contemporary design.A dyslexic, he needed to have exam questions read to him at school and during his tertiary education, and his answers recorded by a writer, but that didn't stop him from developing into a remarkable engineer and architectural designer.
John worked on motorcycle design for some years, developing innovative methods using composite materials and performance engine designs. He created the Britten Motorcycle Company in 1992 to produce revolutionary machines to his own design made of light materials and using engines he built himself, which became famous around the world.
His Britten motorcycles won races and set numerous speed records on the international circuits, and astounded the motorcycle world in 1991 when they came a remarkable second and third against the factory machines in the Battle of the Twins at Daytona, United States Of America.
Bill Gallagher (New Zealander)
The Gallagher story started in the 1930's when Bill Gallagher senior, founder of the Gallagher Group, used his ingenuity to develop practical mechanical solutions for his underdeveloped farm.
When Joe the Horse used the Gallagher family car as a scratching post in the early 1930's, the horse could not have known what his annoying habit would lead to. It is doubtful that Bill Gallagher visualised his pioneering future when he set up the electric circuit that charged the car to break the horse's habit. Hard lesson for the horse, innovative start for Bill.
In 1937 Bill Gallagher made his first electric fence. He had read that in America they were using electrified wire to hold stock. He used mains power supply to power the fence until his circuit was deemed illegal and disconnected by authorities. Undaunted, he developed fences that were powered by batteries and Ford coils. They had their weaknesses, but it was a start.
Bill developed and experimented until, given their limitations, they performed as best they could. But by the early 1960's the battery-powered fences abilities had peaked. They only had full effect in small areas and their growth would have only been achieved through advances in technology that were not likely to occur for a while. Then, fortunately for the business of animal control, the law regarding main power supply usage was changed in 1961, and Power Fencing as the world knows it today, was legally born.
¨ Bill Hamilton (New Zealander)
Sir Charles William Feilden Hamilton (26 July 1899 - 30 March 1978), commonly known as Bill Hamilton, was a New Zealander who developed the modern jetboat, and founder of what is now the world's leading water jet manufacturing company - CWF Hamilton Ltd
Hamilton never claimed to have invented the jet boat. He once said "I do not claim to have invented marine jet propulsion. The honour belongs to a gentleman named Archimedes, who lived some years ago". What he did was refine the design enough to produce the first useful modern jet boat.
In the 1950s Hamilton set out to try to build a boat that could navigate the shallow fast flowing rivers where he lived. The rivers were too shallow for propeller driven boats to navigate as the propeller would hit the river bottom.
He investigated the American Hanley Hydro-Jet, a model which drew in water and fired it out through a steerable nozzle underneath the boat. Even when further adapted it did not work well. An employee suggested to have the nozzle just above the waterline.
When he took one of his early demonstration jet boats to the US, the media scoffed when he said he planned to take it up the Colorado River (U.S.), but in 1960 a Hamilton jet became the first boat to travel up through the Grand Canyon. The critics were silenced further when the boat also went down river through the canyon.
He was born at Ashwick Station near Fairlie (South Island, New Zealand).
Hamilton survived an aeroplane accident returning to Rongotai Airport (Wellington) in poor conditions on 19 February 1937. The collision with the anemometer took the starboard wing off the Miles Falcon Six he was travelling in, and killed pilot Malcolm "Mac" McGregor.